Notes for Barbara SCHAFF

Notes for Barbara SCHAFF

SOURCE: Barbara Schaff Duprel San Jose CA. (1973), Newspaper Wedding Announcement.

News from the Valley Irrigator Newell South Dakota. The column heading Vale and Vicinity.

Thurs May 14, 1936: Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Duprel were pleasently susprised friday evening when a group of friends charcaried them. A pleasant evening was spent dancing, after which refreshments were served. Mrs. Duprel, the latter being Barbara Schaff, were married in Sturgis on May 4th. June 25 1936: Ladies of Bear Bute Valley were hostesses at a surprise brides shower in house of Mrs. Leonard Duprel. The event was held Monday at the Andrew Duprel home.

From the column heading Twilight Vicinity: Sept 24, 1936:

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Duprel, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Duprel, Mr. and Mrs. Raph Odell and Mr. and Mrs. John Middleton visited Sun with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nelson and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Eichler.

Barbara Schaff was born 17 June 1917 at lead, Lawrence County, South Dakota. She is the youngest daughter of John J. Schaff and Bertha Holdren. She has one brother Jack, now living in Salt Lake City, Utah, and one sister Katherine Whitman living at Gig Harbor Washington. She attended the Volunteer grade school. She graduated from Sturgis High School in 1934. Barbara worked as a telephone operator in Nisland South Dakota the year prior to her marriage to Leonard A. Duprel. They were married at Bear Butte Valley, South Dakota on 4 May 1936. During World War II Barbara worked at the Kaiser Ship Yard Number III in California as a Journeymen welder for a year and a half. (see Leonard Duprel for the rest of the family story)